Hello folks and welcome, once again to another chapter of Mystic Saiyan! I hope I haven't kept you all waiting too long, namely Moony, but to all my other fans as well… Stop with the torture devices Moony and I shall keep writing. After all, I am having way too much fun with these chapters to stop here…
Chapter 15 is mostly character development and hardly any action, but it is only the prelude to the first climax of the story, as well as it is necessary. I hope you enjoy it and chapter 16 shouldn't be too far behind at all… Enjoy!
Mystic Saiyan-Ch15-A Fleeting Sense of Normality
We were all, save for Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and Trunks, in the living room of Capsule Corporation, watching TV that I took no interest in. There was nothing interesting on because most everyone had fled, trying to run away from the menace that was Cell. Vegeta and Goku were sparring outside, but only after Vegeta had practically threatened Goku. Trunks was having his turn in the Time Chamber, and Piccolo was off somewhere, probably meditating and watching over a probably studying Gohan.
Because of Goku's increasing efforts to take it easy for the remaining time before the Cell Games, Vegeta had only managed to get one spar out of him since he had walked out of the chamber in a maintained Super Saiyan form two days ago. I could imagine that Chi-Chi was pissed at Vegeta, but Goku had managed to talk to her…I think…
Alexis had come back to the mountainous area yesterday, after I managed to convince him that I really was going back to Capsule Corporation. He hadn't believed me at first and thought it was a brilliant plot to keep him away from me because of his constant nagging me for a spar. I had become tired of fighting at the moment and decided to save my energy for tomorrow, where I may or may not need it. I'm hoping the latter is true.
As I thought, I tuned out the TV and listened more to the sounds of the brawl going on outside. By the sound of it, I think Goku is going to have a lot of explaining to do when he walks on his doorstep as battered as he will more than likely be. It looks once again as if the two warriors were evenly matched, but Vegeta still will not be satisfied until he pounds Goku into the ground. It looks as if Vegeta is actually maintaining himself here as well, because of the individual skills I had improved. Now he might actually have a chance.
I was still worried about what Alexis said three days ago when he believed that Goku wouldn't be able to walk away from a fight with Cell. It didn't seem like Goku's power had changed at all in the least. Sure, his power had increased, but based on what I sensed of Cell the other day, I don't think it would matter.
The silence out back had stripped me of my thoughts as I faintly heard a familiar voice.
"Do any of you know where I can find Sakidra?" He asked as I stood up where I was sitting, drawing the attention of Tien and Krillin.
"Anything wrong, Sakidra?" Tien asked. That drew Yamcha's attention and I soon enough had three people watching my reaction as Goku guided a very familiar person to the living room, Vegeta somewhere in tow.
"Goku, who's that?" Krillin asked.
"What do you want, Alexis?" I asked him. Four faces turned to me as I looked at Alexis.
"Who is this guy? Do you know him, Sakidra?" Yamcha asked.
"Yeah, of course. Wait, I don't believe all of you have been formally introduced. Krillin, Yamcha, Tien, Goku, this is my brother, Alexis." I explained.
"I didn't know you had a brother? Does he fight?" Goku asked. I did a neck slashing motion as I tried to avoid the inevitable question. I sighed as Alexis turned to face him.
"Is that a challenge?" He asked.
"What is it you wanted, Alexis?" I asked, interrupting the conversation. He turned back to face me.
"Fine, fine, I won't embarrass you anymore. I just wanted to find out if you were lazing about or not. Aren't the Cell Games tomorrow?" He asked. I growled a warning and pulled him aside.
"You know full well that I can't participate in that stupid excuse for a tournament. Do you actually want me to blow our cover?" I hissed in warning. I looked back to see everyone was giving us curious glances. "Forget about my fighting status and tell me your point of coming all the way here." I said, dragging him back to our present company.
"What was that about?" Krillin asked.
"Nothing. I just had to remind him of some certain things." Before he blew my cover…
"So, what did you really want? Since you finally annoyed me like only an older brother can." I asked.
"Actually…" He started, coming up next to me and whispered quietly in my ear. "I hoped to get you away from all these people. I have a present for you. Call it a fleeting sense of normality in this foreign place." He finished, backing up. My face betrayed shock as I finally understood the meaning of what he was saying.
"You actually brought it?" I asked, completely shocked. "Where is it?"
"It's in a very…special place. Come on and I'll show you." He replied, clasping my shoulder for a brief second before walking away toward the back yard. I understood what he was referring to and I turned to the others, finding some curious expressions.
"What's he talking about?" Yamcha asked.
"What's in a special place?" Goku asked.
"What are you so excited about?" Vegeta asked, grunting as he saw my lit up face.
"It's nothing important for now." I looked back to see Alexis hovering in the back yard, waiting for me. "I have to go for right now. You probably won't see me again until the start of the Cell Games. Meet you there." I called behind me as I ran to the back and a very impatient Alexis.
"Geez you take a long time. What did you do, kiss them all good-bye?" He asked. I retched at the thought.
"Alexis! That's disgusting! You know what that would mean!" I yelled, hitting him over the head.
"Oops, sorry. I keep forgetting…" He replied.
"So, where's this present of yours? I've been wearing these stupid Earth clothes long enough!" I said, lifting a bit of fabric from my shirt. He chuckled at the idea.
I know precisely what you mean. I got these from Takara, but they aren't that much better. The things we must sacrifice to keep a stupid cover. I launched from Kamorae only to realize that I had to stop at Takara and get clothes that actually looked normal on this planet. I don't feel like walking around and looking overdressed…" He said, pointing at his own black muscle shirt and faded blue jeans.
"I seriously don't understand how these humans can wear clothes that are so…confining. Not to mention light. I feel almost naked in these clothes." I said, knowing the truth. Without the weight of my usual training uniform, I felt like I was stripped of my security.
Earth clothing is, among other things, coarse, skimpy, and so light, it feels like I'm wearing nothing at all. I get very uncomfortable under those circumstances. Kamorae, however, has the ability to make the best clothes on the face of the universe. With the subtle weight sewn in to the clothes, made from a fabric obviously not found on Earth, and the range of movement allowed within them, plus their unbelievable durability, even under the most harsh circumstances, the clothes made from Kamorae tailors are the best made clothes anywhere. Especially so if you're talking about a training outfit.
"The clothes are in my pod. I convinced Charakka to let me pack you an outfit on the grounds that I knew how Earth clothes made you uncomfortable. I knew you didn't take any with you either, I saw that before we separated." Alexis said as he led the way down a familiar path. Soon enough, we landed in the desert near the crater that his pod landed in.
"About that… You aren't mad, are you? I knew I shouldn't have told you to run, but I needed you to go back and tell Charakka what happened." I explained.
"That's quite alright. As much as I resented you for putting your life on the line like that, an act that would have more than likely sparked an all out war had you died, if you hadn't sent me back, I would never have met the beautiful girl I get the honor of calling Niece." He explained. I blushed at his reference to my five-year-old(1) daughter Sukara.
"Don't be so flattering… How was she before you left Kamorae?" I asked. I hadn't seen Sukara in person since I dropped her off to Charakka when she was born. Sure, I had contacted her since then, she knew she had a mother who was alive, but I hadn't been able to hold her hand or talk to her in person at all.
"She was doing just fine. She hasn't shown any signs of an early fluctuation of her power so Charakka's doing just fine. As for that uniform, it's in here somewhere." He said, digging in his opened pod.
"Speaking of that, you and your one-track mind forgot to turn off the standby power." I pointed out.
"So? I needed to be able to find it, and Kamorae ships don't have a sense setting so I had to leave it on standby." He said.
"Oh. I forgot." I said, surprised that I hadn't remembered the most elementary aspect of Kamorae ships. It's a sign that I definitely hadn't seen my home planet in a long time, ten years to be specific.
"Here, I found it." Alexis said, retreating from his pod and handing me a folded uniform. "I even convinced Charakka to let me bring your blue and purple combos." He explained, lifting up the cape part of the top to reveal a luscious violet color with blue patterns dotted on the cloth. It was an excellent change from the regulation silver and beige patterns.
"Even more wonderful." I said, walking off to find a place to change when Alexis stopped me.
"Not so fast. There's one more thing you need before you leave. It will complete the outfit." He said. I turned to see him holding a silver scarf with black patterns lacing down the silken fabric. It looked beat-up but it was still in excellent shape.
"A Chaosweaver's scarf?" I asked, grasping the material.
"Not just any. It was Serena's." He explained.
"Mother's scarf? How did you find it?" I asked, folding it above the ground with awe.
"She told me to give it to you when she died. It served her well in her fighting days. I saw her myself in the rare battle. It's yours now." Alexis replied.
"But Chaosweaver's scarves aren't made anywhere anymore! Not even the tailors on Kamorae can figure out the technology behind it. This was made by our grandfather, wasn't it?" I asked.
"Yes, it was. But that's not the end of it. Before you get to bask in her glory, you must prove yourself one final time. I want one more spar with you, especially before you fight someone like Cell." He said.
"But I all ready told you, I'm not fighting. I can't without the others knowing—"
"I don't care! Prepare for a fight!" He said and rushed, causing me to be put slightly off guard. I had to backflip to avoid the first of his barrage of kicks without dropping my package.
I lowered my clothes to the ground before defending from another set of flying limbs thrown from Alexis's end.
"It's a no-rules brawl. Use what you want and don't hold back. No matter what!" He yelled in the midst of his blitz. I ducked under his latest jab and found myself dodging a mass of kicks from below. I finally found an opening in his stance and assumed a style that I had learned on a distant planet outside of the Kanassan System. It's a style that closely resembles a cobra's strike. It's probably why it's called the Hassaru style; the Kanassan word for snake. I brought my arms within striking distance and swiftly struck the two pressure points located on Alexis's arms, stopping his punching blitz abruptly.
"What was that for?" He asked, unable to use his arms for another few minutes.
"You said, "no-rules" remember?" I asked him.
"But the Hassaru? That's just low. I can't even defend myself now." He said.
"A fact that I'll take great advantage of." I said as I rushed in for my own blitz of kicks to his torso, knocking him to the sandy ground. He jumped up and avoided me until his arms regained movement. Finally he matched every punch I threw and every kick I sent with one of his own. We were synchronized with our own style of fighting, completely neutral going into the late night.
As the moon sailed the sky, I finally realized our position and decided to finish the fight quickly. As the openings revealed themselves in his style, I took many of them to get him where I wanted and finally twisted behind him to catch his neck with the side of my hand.
"This fight is over." I said and looked to the sky to see the faintest light from the eastern horizon. I gazed off for a while, just sitting on the sand before I felt Alexis sit near me.
"You're worried about Kamorae, aren't you?" He said.
"Wouldn't you be, in my position? As good as Charakka is, I doubt he could defend against a full-scale attack if he decided to show himself again." I said.
"He won't, I know it. I don't know where he is now, but I would guess it's safe to say that he won't go after Kamorae right now. He knows you're not there and that what's keeping him from going. As for Sukara and Charakka, this is Kamorae we're talking about. They can defend themselves." He reassured.
"Thanks…" I said.
After that, we just sat and stared at the eventual sunrise, I was anticipating the battle ahead. I was wondering what would happen to the others in their attempts to defeat Cell…
"Hey, Saki?" Alexis asked, using my childhood nickname.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"Are you going to tell them? Will you reveal who you really are?" He asked.
"I really hope I don't have to. If I don't have to interfere, everyone will be better off. I sense this Cell creature and I must admit that I am a little unsettled by his presence. I just hope Goku can take care of it, but as it stands right now, I doubt it could happen. Whatever I do, it is dependent on what course of action Cell takes." I explained.
"Oh." Alexis sighed.
"Are you going to come, at least?" I asked. He looked up.
"I will have to, in case something happens. I can't take any risks and I definitely cannot get involved in the fighting that occurs. My abilities would destroy what's left of the area after the others have probably ruined the area with their actions." He said, turning his gaze to me.
"I don't really understand you. You would usually jump at the chance to fight." I asked him.
"If you don't want a sure chance of blowing your cover, it's best I don't get involved. Not to mention that I couldn't beat Cell without transforming, and we both know the consequences of that." He said.
"Really now? That means that these Saiyans are going to have to put as many aces in their possession as possible if they have any hopes of winning. I really hope I don't have to get involved in this fight…" I said sighing.
"Yeah, tell me about it. I didn't come here to protect yet another planet." He pointed out.
"And I didn't call you here to do that. I think we should go into the city, find an empty place to change, and head over to the prelims for the Cell Games. You up for it?" I asked.
"I'm with you." He said and stood. I leapt into the air and flew off into what I heard to be East City. We landed in what I assumed to be an abandoned arcade and analyzed the games there.
"Remember, we didn't come here to—
"I know, Alexis, I know, okay? What a shame, it didn't have DDR…" I trailed.
Suddenly, I felt a great power signature flaring somewhere sough of here.
"You sense that?" I asked, turning sharply toward the strongest power.
"Yeah. I think we should make this quick. Find a bathroom and change. Then we can go." He replied. I nodded and went to the back where the women's bathrooms were. I changed quickly and ran to meet Alexis toward the front of the arcade.
After Alexis had finished, I found him walking out the arcade and motioning me to follow him. I leapt into the air for the second time that day and we took off toward the power signature that was leading us to our ultimate destination: The Cell Games Arena…
:.EoC.:
I hope this wasn't too…corny, but I had to get the siblings alone for a while. They had things to talk about, like their doubts of Goku and the others, that they couldn't reveal in front of anyone. The "big threat" that they were talking about that might go after Kamorae won't be mentioned for another four or so chapters. Next chapter is soon in the making. I will not leave you with a gaping cliffhanger for long; even though this isn't that big of a cliffhanger. There is the return of the endnotes as I have something to mention.
(1): I believe I mentioned Sukara once in chapter 4 or 6, I don't remember. Of course, I could just also be hallucinating and didn't mention her at all. In which case, this would be easier. However, I do believe that I mentioned her to be four years old. This makes almost no sense at all and I decided to have it be five for the sake of a timeline. If you have any more questions, review and I will try my best to answer them…
As I said, Chapter 16 isn't too far off so stay aware of this story. The plot turns next chapter on Mystic Saiyan! Well, 'till next time!